He discovered the homeopathic energy effect
and explored its meaning in the days before Einstein and computers.
We now can apply his complete medical system to integrate the
observations of doctors and healers throughout history. [more]

I have been in the health care field since entering
pre-medicine in 1967. For over 30 years I have had different roles in our
country's health care system. I have seen development of technologies and
changes in health care standards that would have amazed me when I started my
journey to become a doctor. Most of my years in the health care field included
contact with typical "standard western medicine" areas: classes as
M.D. med student, leave of absence, personal search for healing that led me into
alternative medicine, work in medical records (typing the reports of MDs of
several specialties, part-time over 20 years), licensed as counselor, massage
practitioner, naturopathic physician. I have studied with specialists in Native
American shamanism, Ayurveda, Chinese Taoist Acupuncture, spiritual healing,
homeopathy, herbalism, electro-acupuncture biofeedback (EAV), NES Infoceutical
technology, CoRe (Coincidence Recognition), German
"Psycho-Kinesiologie", Biological Dentistry, Orthomolecular Medicine,
Osteopathic energy perception and more.

I myself have experienced Multiple Chemical Sensitivity,
chronic yeast effects, dental problems, initial signs related to MS, and several
other considerations. This is in addition to having the normal musculoskeletal
challenges of an active athletic life. The way to help people with a variety of
complaints is to have a variety of options from which to choose.

My insights into the need for an interactive,
multi-faceted groundwork for health care (and for Life itself) drive my work to
help preserve the assets of many ways of looking at life's needs, including
health care. My web site gives examples of ways humanity is now poised at a
point where tremendous health benefits can be realized if people are able to
share their resources and build our future in mutual support. Without freedom of
choice in health care we seem doomed to less vibrant existence, more chronic
puzzling illnesses, enslavement to simple "answers" to complex
problems.

Historically, naturopaths were "Eclectic", using a variety
of approaches. District of Columbia registration for "naturopaths" now allows a variety of backgrounds.
I have met several non-four-year naturopaths and am impressed with their grasp
of the eclectic spirit of natural medicine and their ability to bridge several
approaches to health support including what has been called "energy
medicine". The graduates of the 4-year
schools seem to me to
represent the "high-end specialty" part of the spectrum of naturopaths. It is my hope, therefore, that we can find a balance
between the four-year graduates and others whose schooling was in other
institutions. Ultimately, I would like to see all institutions training
"naturopaths" come to agreement and achieve a standard of education
that includes scientifically validated approaches as well as effective
assessment/treatment techniques for which the science to explain them has not
yet been completely elucidated. And the result of that would be a unified
presentation to the western medicine schools and to the nation of the necessity
for obeying natural laws in order to have a truly successful practice of
"medicine", "doctoring", "healing".

Dr. Bastyr and Energy Anatomy:
I want to encourage young N.D. graduates (and students also) of four-year
schools such as Bastyr
University to consider the "energy medicine" approaches, including
homeopathy and acumeridian
therapies, and study and research them if possible. This provides access to the
fullness of what is called the Vis medicatrix naturae
[more].
It also gives a better understanding of what Dietrich Klinghardt and others call the
"higher levels" of the
5-level Map (Model) to Health and Healing. Dr. John Bastyr himself was
a stock-holder in "BodyScan, Inc." BodyScan was a company that was
founded in the 1980's and told investors that it was making a
chair in which the patient would sit and have light rays beamed in front of them, with
receivers on the other side that would capture the light beam and see how it was
changed in character by the vibrations of the person's energy field that
surrounds each of us. I joined a group of naturopaths and others for a tour of the facility and
listened to the investment
presentation. The company eventually went bankrupt. However, for me knowing that Dr. Bastyr
had
invested in the possibility of scientific validation of the energies he could
sense is a powerful motivator. Of note is the fact t

The company's scientists designed a test room in
which a person would sit and have beams of light passed from one
side to the other. The sensor on the other side of the body would
detect changes in the light as a result of its interaction with the
field surrounding the body. This company offered stock to investors.
The company later disbanded. A notable investor in this
technology was John Bastyr, D.C.,N.D., whose name is
honored at Bastyr University.

Update 12/2010:My latest hope is that Autonomic Nervous
System monitoring using Heart Rate Variability technology
as well as the AcuGraph technology may be the way to
objectively document the changes currently assessed using Applied Kinesiology
and Autonomic Response Testing.
Earlier (2000) I had thought that the HRV Live! technology may be the breakthrough in proof that he
and others sought; I own one myself; see clinical research that I
did myself - here.

Special Note on Dr. Bastyr and Dr. Abrams: Dr.
Bastyr kept an Abrams "Black Box" device in his office. I am convinced that this
was a statement to us all that even though something can become the object of
ridicule and derision, it may be a clue to a truth that in later years would be
accepted. My understanding is that the initial observation Dr. Albert Abrams made was that if a
patient were standing facing to the geographical West, then the result of
percussion of the abdomen would be different than when they stood facing other
directions. To me, this makes sense and was hammered home to me last year when
looking at television coverage of hurricanes -- they always rotate in a specific
direction that ends up with an aspect of their orientation pointing towards the
West. This could only be seen from high in space using a satellite for imaging
the cloud patterns, something that Dr. Abrams, Dr. Bastyr and other early
doctors and "students of Nature" did not have at their disposal.
(See Goldfish Bowl Medicine essay below.)

Dr. Abrams
went on to develop techniques based on what he understood about human
bioenergies. He began the studies of what has been termed "Radiesthesia" or "Radionics." However, those whose world view (and pocket book) was threatened attacked him.
(See links below to sites about Dr. Abrams' discoveries.) Many other discoveries
or systems of assessment and treatment draw upon the same as-yet unacknowledged
aspect of the natural world, such as: the Toftness device (I trained in using
this at an extracurricular workshop while I was a student at Bastyr; this
"device" is simply a piece of plastic that is rubbed by the practitioner with
one hand and the other hand is placed near the body of the patient and when the
hand is above a place on the body that is giving off a radiation of disturbance
then the practitioner's hand feels a "squeak" instead of sliding on the plastic,
this is a phenomenon of electrostatic charge, a simple concept but it was seen
as dangerous knowledge and attacked by the AMA and the FDA), Applied Kinesiology
(I trained in this in an extracurricular workshop while a student at Bastyr),
Chinese pulse testing (I trained in this in the acupuncture department at
Bastyr), Nogier auricular medicine with the VAS (Vascular
Autonomic Signal, which I learned in a workshop while at Bastyr), and much
more than I can cite in this essay at this time. [Note: This "electrostatic"
concept could even be the basis for what homeopaths have called
Chronic Miasms and Chthonic Disease.

ACEP (the Association for Comprehensive
Energy Psychology): I support the pioneering work of ACEP in
informing the mental health community of important tools for
accessing deep mental and emotional processes. Their careful
development over recent years has been inspiring.
Their work is similar to the Mental Field Therapy of Dr.
Klinghardt. Note: When you visit the ACEP web
site please be aware that they are in the early stages of perceiving
the importance of body energies that were originally studied by the
doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The ACEP members were
originally members of the western psychology field who are now
trying to stand in both camps. Please do not rely solely on the
practitioners you may encounter after visiting their web site. I can
advise you on creating a much more robust program of individualized
care than can their members. Still, I do appreciate them for their
boldness in developing the work as far as they understand it.
FYI: This is compatible with the Tong Ren Tapping Therapy.

Concept:

In the Kingdom of the Blind... who can
understand the One-Eyed Man?

This restatement of an old saying
brings home the fact that when people do not have the same
understanding of life, they will not appreciate what each other is
saying. What is clear to one may be ridiculed by others.

I plan to write an essay about this, titled "Goldfish Bowl
Medicine": This will describe the situation that just as fish do not perceive
that they live in
water, so our modern western medicine system does not acknowledge that humans
move within an intricate system of energy fields that are invisible and affect
us in subtle ways. It now is time for us to "wake up" and realize how important
it is to be able to look "beyond the goldfish bowl" and see the influences that
push us in ways we cannot understand if we only remain as ignorant fish in a
goldfish bowl. This is why I say thatE = mc2
is a crucial equation to consider (see below).

Bastyr University and the Goldfish
Bowl Medicine phenomenon re EAV/Computron:

During my enrollment at Bastyr
University I had been undergoing treatment following recommendations
of a former student, Douglas Leber, homeopath and alternative
medicine practitioner -- he had been expelled
["allowed to resign"] from Bastyr College of
Naturopathic Medicine because he was spending too much time in the
student clinic using the Voll EAV device (Electro-Acupuncture
according to Voll) to track down the cause of patients' problems.
The company that he then founded was Computronix; the technology is
still available [site].

At my first visit to his office in his home he spent six hours with
me. He interviewed me, used TCM pulse testing (augmented with use of
a polarizing camera filter, such as we use nowadays in the
Klinghardt Autonomic Response Testing protocols). He assessed my body's energies using EAV. We decided I would benefit from nutritional
interventions, homeopathic remedies, and detoxifying my body from
heavy metals, among other things. Along with the removal of my
dental mercury fillings I credit Doug Leber as one of the most
significant people in my life. I am sure I would be dead now if not
for Doug. Eventually, I arranged for him to
begin a study group for Bastyr students. He even donated one of his
"Computron" devices (an improvement over early Voll EAV devices) to
the Bastyr Clinic. Sadly, this was opposed by Bastyr leadership, and
eventually the EAV unit was mysteriously stolen from the clinic and
students no longer had exposure to this technology. Computron is
still available, and in use in many clinics including the NIHA one
in Washington DC (www.NIHAdc.com)

This phenomenon of "disappearance" of
threatening information happened again when the book by Bjorn
Nordenstrom, M.D., disappeared from the Bastyr Library (I had been
able to meet Dr. Nordenstrom when he came to speak to doctors and
students and others at a private meeting in the 1980's, Dr. Bastyr
was in attendance. At that same meeting as a student I was the
driver who brought John Ott from the airport to the meeting site, he
was a pioneer researcher into light as necessary for life:
more info on Dr. Nordenstrom.)

All of this was part of the motivation
behind my writing a draft of a book that I titled, "God is not
(that) Far Away". I wrote the book when I was enrolled
in Bastyr University's Spirituality, Health & Medicine certificate
program, I then adapted that book to create this website as a class
project.

Bastyr University now has the chance to take the lead in
teaching this dynamic model of how Life works. For me, the simplest explanation
for what I seek is to have the school help apply Einstein's equationE = mc2
to health care.

How Traditional Chinese Medicine Lost its Vitality[original
essay]: The experience in China is
parallel to what has developed in western medicine.

Henry
Ford and Mao Tse-tung nearly destroyed Acupuncture. This
purposely attention-seeking phrase is intended to get people to understand how
drastic the changes were in China when "Chairman Mao" took power and
began purging the nation of China of "outdated ideas". Especially
ruinous was the so-called "Cultural Revolution". The sad fact which I
point out in lectures is that the dedication to scientific reproducible, "assemblyline"
processes led both Henry Ford and Mao Tse-tung to disregard the more subtle
aspects of right-brain logic, individualized processes, and closed their minds
to the possibilities of energy-based medicine.

Our
nation has been severely damaged by the "materialistic" view of life
that led western society to the "Industrial Revolution", and its
subsequent application to "medical science". I am convinced that Mao
was so entranced by the so-called "progress" of western culture, that
he decided that assemblyline medicine was what his own country needed.

Sadly,
that resulted in re-writing the tried-and-true acupuncture knowledge base and
gutted it of its wisdom of circadian rhythm, planetary cycles, subtle energies.
Much of what was lost was due to persecution and denouncing the value of Taoist
acupuncture. The
"Barefoot Doctor" system instituted under Chairman Mao was intended to bring health care to the
common people. However, it was stripped of its connection to the trustworthy wisdom
that included a respect for the energy cycles of nature and individualization of
treatments. This resulted in a situation where researchers were unaware of the
rich heritage that might have stimulated them to study body energies in a much
deeper way. (Hopefully this is slowly changing.)

Myself, I was fortunate
to spend time in 1993 with a Taoist acupuncture physician on top of one of the holy
Taoist mountains in China. [See Photo Album.] Their temple had been desecrated by the Red Guard,
and the mountain-top site had been leveled (the people were ashamed of it and
urged me not to go see it; I found a beautiful view but atop the mountain was a
ghastly concrete structure that was unfinished and a cruel reminder of the
ravages that had torn at that proud nation).

The
progress of acupuncture science in China has been slowed by the loss of interest
in the energy relationships taught by Taoist acupuncture. Acupuncture was
reduced to "cookbook" medicine, without teaching how to deeply study
the energy field of the patient and how to understand how the individual is
affected by the seasons and by the cycles of Nature. Fortunately, some of the
ancient ways were passed down secretly within families and courageous people
have slowly been bringing some of the knowledge back for others to access (I do
not have connections, so don't ask). One place in the western world to gain some
of this information is through the Worsley School of Five-Element
Acupuncture.

What
we are left with in the United States is a lot of teachers who have cut
themselves off from scientific integration of acumeridian phenomena. Virtually
all the schools of acupuncture are shackled to a rote-memory kind of system. The
way acupuncture is taught in China and the USA (in my opinion) is totally
divorced from integration with western science and the promising new
developments (quantum physics, chaos/pattern theory, fractal science,
neurotransmitter science). They actually believe that they get better results
the more defined they are in the Yin/Yang definitions they use for diagnosis and
treatment.

I
can explain more in my lectures but the bottom line is that the acumeridian
techniques taught by instructors in Autonomic/Neural
Technologies give me hope that intelligent students, researchers and
clinicians will learn how to work with acumeridian energies in an integrated,
wide-ranging and effective way. There are many other resources, I am sure, that
would want to be included as having a larger perspective and I would like to add
to these later as they contact me.

Story: If I happen to know that there is a huge section
of the street outside that is capable of falling into the ground-- much like a
trapdoor that could open and swallow up people and cars, etc. -- I have a human
obligation to tell you... This is the same as my insights in health care...

The section on "Why
haven't I heard of this before?" contains conjectures about reasons for
the slow progress in expanding the model or paradigm used to explain health,
illness, treatment and reclamation of health.